Confirm

[Anon]

I got this from another post here and I was trying to get it to delete some records using that.

<script language=\"JavaScript\">
function deleteRecords() {
if (confirm(\"Are you sure you want to delete these records?\")) {
<?php
$db = mysql_connect(\"$hostname\", \"$username\", \"$password\");
mysql_select_db(\"$database\",$db);
$numresults=mysql_query( \"delete * from sites where Site_ID=$id\",$db);
?>
}

It doesn\'t seem to be working.. i think it might be that its not getting the $id variable value... brain is dead.. must get help! thanks 🙂

[Anon]

You have to understand the diffences between javascript and php, one is client-side and the other for server-side respectively. These two can not directly interact with each other. I don't mean to be rude, but if you don't understand this, you have some serious reading to do...

[Anon]

Well i understand it. How else would i ask for confirmation .. is there some kind of php function I don't know about? the reason y i was trying to use the other one was because of the other guy used it and i quote:

<script language="JavaScript">
function deleteRecords() {
if (confirm("Are you sure you want to delete these records?")) {
//Whatever code that would execute a PHP function to delete records.
}

Therefore it made me think that I could use it 🙁

[Anon]

The other guy didn't know what he was talking about.

You must refresh or submit a page in order for php to be executed. So pop up your javascript window, if they click yet, then submit the page and process it for which items need to be deleted.

I know this is a very basic summary, but I don't think you've got the basics yet, so keep working. Read the manual.

---John Holmes...

[Anon]

What you need to do is use the Javascript to create the confirmation popup, then use the Javascript to fetch a new page from the server. The new page would then perform the deletion.

[Anon]

Thanks. I thought that would be the way to do it.

[lakatos]

I am having a similar problem. Is there any other way to interact between the PHP and javascript when trying to confirm or not confirm an entry by the user?

nadia :-)

Crazytoon wrote:

Thanks. I thought that would be the way to do it.